tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:22:22 +0000disabilitiesinclusionnew homesmediatravelfat acceptanceaccessibilityvisitabilityLas VegasstigmaConcrete ChangeMLS Searchabiliyuniversal designhurricanesmore infoBlackBerrychronic illnessreasonable accommodationsmodest needsfreedomdisability etiquetteThe Ample TravelerInternet Realtyhttp://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Pattie)Blogger61125noreply@blogger.comnotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-8293630506742580450Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:09:00 +00002011-10-29T15:10:05.281-07:00accessibilitydisabilitiestravelreasonable accommodationsinclusionchronic illnessI just spent the last 19.5 hours taking a bus to Phoenix and picking up a car from my brother. I wrote the following on my blackberry, while on the road and then emailed to the blog. The only editing I did was to add a video and a picture. Everything else was written pretty much real time. This is a slice of disabled traveling by a sociologist who loves to watch people. Two weeks ago, after all http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-on-road.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-3597004522590045540Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:22:00 +00002011-10-10T12:22:38.744-07:00 Today I begin my 55th year on this planet. It will be a landmark year next birthday--that magical one where discounts and offers put me in a new marketing category. I have one more year of being middle-aged. Somehow, magically, one year from today, I will be transformed into an "early senior" as I've heard it described. Aging, as you can guess is on my mind today. The last 4 years of my life http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2011/07/birthday-wishes-aging-size-acceptance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-2583332789314065730Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:35:00 +00002011-06-09T16:51:44.025-07:00fat acceptanceaccessibilitydisabilitiestravelreasonable accommodationsThe Ample Travelerstigmainclusionuniversal designfreedomI really hope this is the start of something good. The airlines have been given too much power and have resisted the simplest ideas to make them comfortable for all people. I'm happy to see some understanding that the issue for people of size is part of the greater issue of people having rights when they fly.http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2011/06/aapr-takes-on-size-issue-finally.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-2486787052428765596Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:19:00 +00002011-01-19T20:20:29.670-08:00fat acceptancemediastigmaI'm excited about kicking off a new blog at the Psychology Today website. The blog is called "I Take Up Space" and is about the consequences of fatism. The site has millions of visitors each month, so I'm hopeful that it will become an outlet for discussing Fat Studies as an emerging field and promoting sociological perspectives on these issues as well.I write about the failure of New Year's http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-take-up-space-new-blog-on-psychology.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-7533957894741030641Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:48:00 +00002011-01-10T13:50:34.640-08:00accessibilitydisabilitiesreasonable accommodationsvisitabilityConcrete Changeinclusionuniversal designfreedomWith appreciation to Emory University, the Rollins School of Public Health and the Goizueta Business School...Concrete Change is pleased to announce to you, our friendsandsupporters of housing justice the selection ofConcrete Changeas one of the recipients ofThe 2011 Annual Martin Luther King Jr.Community Service Award For our work to promote affordable, accessible integrated housing."Basic http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2011/01/congratulations-concrete-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-1597362789819915127Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:01:00 +00002011-01-07T14:18:35.714-08:00accessibilitydisabilitiesvisitabilityLas Vegasnew homesMLS Searchabiliyinclusionuniversal designfreedomI have published an article in Desert Companion, a local magazine, on Inclusive Housing in Southern Nevada.Let Us In: Think accessible housing isjust an issue for the “disabled”? Think again. Making Las Vegas livable in the future means making homes more visitable — today Please read and pass along to others.If you are local, you can get issue in Coffee Bean & Tea Leafs in the Metro Las Vegas http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2011/01/desert-companion-article-let-us-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-1132964403883160971Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:46:00 +00002011-01-07T13:56:44.725-08:00accessibilitydisabilitiesreasonable accommodationsvisitabilityinclusionuniversal design>There are a slew of people nationwide who end up on nursing homes simply because housing isn't accessible. They do not need 24 hour nursing care, they just need shelter they can get into and move around in. More young people are winding up in nursing homesIt's no longer unusual to find a nursing home resident who is decades younger than his neighbor: About one in seven people now living in such http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2011/01/this-is-why-inclusive-housing-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-590882564368773153Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:40:00 +00002010-08-13T13:59:23.229-07:00modest needsHow can you help?1. VoteGo to the Pepsi Grant Website and click on "VOTE FOR THIS IDEA"It will prompt you for email and password or for registering. All they want is verification that you are of age and to identify you so that you can only vote once a day. I have not received one iota of SPAM from them.Once you sign in and/or register, you have to hit "VOTE FOR THIS IDEA" again.You know you willhttp://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/08/modest-needs-needs-your-help-time-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-6719283386129095501Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:57:00 +00002010-08-13T13:32:42.715-07:00accessibilitydisabilitiestravelLas VegasfreedomI went up to Spring Mountain National Recreational Area yesterday for several reasons. Among them was to just get away from the Vegas heat. Traveling up about 7,000 feet cools things off. But there wasn't much to do because only one very short accessible trail was available. It was a beautiful overlook in which you could see the desert below and really understand the extent to which the Mojave http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/08/some-thoughts-about-wilderness-access.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-318168457409720244Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:55:00 +00002010-07-27T11:38:56.485-07:00accessibilitydisabilitiesreasonable accommodationsvisitabilitystigmainclusionfreedomFirst things first. July 26, 2010 was the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, known as the ADA. I was just about to turn 33 years old when this was signed into office and I had no clue what it come to mean for me personally. I was acutely aware of it. At the time I was working as a reporter and covering small towns across the Florida West Coast. Discussion of http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/07/happy-anniversary-ada-my-thoughts-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-5600646803887065797Mon, 31 May 2010 16:09:00 +00002010-05-31T10:52:32.299-07:00accessibilitydisabilitiesreasonable accommodationsThis past week I've heard more stories of problems with accessibility that I have in a while and it got me thinking how sad it is that after 20 years, most Americans still do not understand what it means to be accessible or how the concept of reasonable accommodations in the ADA works.My own experience in Vegas now that my scooter is working well has been mixed. I've run into dead ends and been http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/05/thoughts-on-accessibility-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-4978127797846180538Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:09:00 +00002010-04-29T17:09:22.896-07:00This is very, very kewl!!! I want one.Suncadia Universal Design Built Green Home in the Pineshttp://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/04/suncadia-universal-design-built-green.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-3140352983026244550Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:07:00 +00002010-04-15T21:16:47.043-07:00accessibilitydisabilitiesvisitabilityMLS Searchabiliyuniversal designfreedomI cannot really add to this. It is so what we hope to do here in Vegas. http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/04/this-is-must-listen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-3504247523773571293Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:51:00 +00002010-04-08T16:22:24.582-07:00accessibilitydisabilitiesvisitabilitystigmainclusionuniversal designfreedomCarl and I have been trying to put a handle on what we want to do, especially with promoting visitable and accessible housing. After kicking around the concept, we have settled on a simple and elegant summary:ADVOPRENEURSHIP (tm)The concept combines the free spirited inventiveness of entrepreneurship with the agenda of an advocate. Put simply, changing the world is part of the business plan.We http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/04/advopreneurship-tm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-6212427718061217669Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:18:00 +00002010-03-15T00:20:45.804-07:00disabilitiesvisitabilitynew homesuniversal designAn excellent description of the "costs" of ignoring visitability. It's so simple. Either we care or we don't.What’s At Stake These are serious matters. And yet . . . * Most builders have not yet begun to construct routine access in new houses. * Most buyers have not yet begun to demand it. * Most policy makers have not yet made it a priorityhttp://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/03/whats-at-stake.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-4524612045146533382Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:03:00 +00002010-03-03T10:39:23.869-08:00disabilitiesmediastigmafreedomchronic illnessI was a guest on Good Health Matters this morning discussing how social roles make living with chronic illness difficult. You can still listen to the show:I had a great time talking about sociology's contribution to improving health and well-being.I really love Verria's approach to chronic illness. She has a "Health Detective Starter Kit" for free on her website, The Good Health Coach. Living http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/03/change-your-role-change-your-health.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-7605599203494238361Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:12:00 +00002010-02-02T12:33:41.573-08:00more infoInternet Realtynew homesThere are two reasons you might want to buy a home NOW:You have not owned a home in the last three years. You've owned the same home and lived in it consecutively for 5 out of the last 8 years. If this is your circumstance, now is the time to shop for a new home. If you put in an offer to buy before May 1 and then close before July 1 of this year, you can file and receive a tax credit this year http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/02/homebuying-credits-now-is-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-373131867873359141Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:21:00 +00002010-01-05T15:59:04.991-08:00disabilitiesmodest needsGood news is that our camera is working again (turned out to be bad batteries). So here's some pix from when we pick up the scooter I got from Scooterville through the generosity of donors on Modest Needs.We bought the scooter from Brad at Scooterville and picked it up at the Broadacres Swap Meet on Saturday, December 5. He's out there every weekend in Space 1304. Since then he's been totally http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/01/camera-working-heres-pix-from-day-i-got.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-2263268582492458000Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:36:00 +00002010-01-04T15:21:27.816-08:00disabilitiesvisitabilitynew homesstigmauniversal designfreedomOne of the things that holds back accommodations for differences in abilities is the paradigms through which we see things. There are many ways we are constrained by past thinking, but perhaps none are more constraining than the thinking that goes into design of the material world. Where we live, tools we use, equipment we need, roads we drive and so forth began as an idea in the minds of http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/01/social-stigma-by-design.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-9046977656673802385Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:42:00 +00002010-01-01T20:42:32.152-08:00Here's the story plus video.I-Team: The Power of One - Las Vegas Nowhttp://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-team-power-of-one-las-vegas-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-4732954466204487462Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:10:00 +00002010-01-01T11:26:52.554-08:00disabilitiesmodest needsfreedomI was extremely excited to receive help from Modest Needs to become more mobile.Now I'm happy to be part of letting Las Vegans and Nevadans know about this wonderful micro-charity!If you are local, watch today (January 1st) at 4p on Channel 8, KLAS-TV. They are doing a story about Modest Needs, featuring me and my new scooter.I highly encourage you to become a donor at Modest Needs if you can. http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2010/01/story-about-modest-needs-airs-4p-pst.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-5204988474484375282Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:38:00 +00002009-12-31T22:44:19.846-08:00disabilitiesInternet Realtymodest needsSo I doubt many people will realize this because I haven't really publicized this blog much yet, but I spent the past two days setting up a new look and new links. I hope you like it. More importantly, I hope you learn something useful to make your life richer, or at least, easier.There is definitely more to come.This week has been a whirlwind of activity:On Tuesday, I was interviewed by Channelhttp://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2009/12/facelift.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-795398937853998481Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +00002009-12-31T22:36:35.421-08:00disabilitiesmodest needsI picked up my new scooter today. Wow. I can't believe that I got it. The camera broke or I'd show you the pix we took when I picked it up from Scooterville. Here's the history of how I got it:Last year (2008), my friend Kell told me about this website called Modest Needs that gave small grants to people who needed a helping hand to keep them from falling into poverty. At the time, our Sonatahttp://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2009/12/modest-needs-and-my-new-scooter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9771192.post-4873188661384150369Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:24:00 +00002009-12-31T22:36:09.436-08:00Las Vegasuniversal designfreedomFirst, given that Las Vegas is a major travel destination, this isn't that big of a difference in purpose.Second, I've been stuck here a bit (going on 3 years, which is a long time for me), so I figure time to stir things up locally.Finally, I got my RE license in August and it seems to me that the best thing I can contribute to the community while making a living is to push those barriers down.http://ampleramblings.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-switch-from-travel-to-real-estate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Pattie)0en-usnonadult